Hats off to Hofstra athletic dept for not shying away from competition

[brockytop]

While their baseball team plays reigning NC Tennessee this weekend their softball team is playing reigning NC Oklahoma. Not many schools would be ballsy enough to do that.

 

[VolPack22]

I don’t really think it’s ballsy per se. Just smart business sense on their part. Whenever you play someone in the SEC there will always be more eyeballs on your game. They also play at Kentucky in two weeks. Would you rather schedule teams from a power conference and give your program more exposure or play nothing but mid majors and never have anyone see you play? It’s a pretty easy decision imo.

 

[brockytop]

I don’t really think it’s ballsy per se. Just smart business sense on their part. Whenever you play someone in the SEC there will always be more eyeballs on your game. They also play at Kentucky in two weeks. Would you rather schedule teams from a power conference and give your program more exposure or play nothing but mid majors and never have anyone see you play? It’s a pretty easy decision imo.

I was referencing them playing the defending national champion in both baseball and softball the same weekend.

 

[MAD]

I was referencing them playing the defending national champion in both baseball and softball the same weekend.

What @VolPack22 said applies to both.

 

[Orange.]

I'll give Hofstra a hand.

 

[brockytop]

What @VolPack22 said applies to both.

Great. There are a lot of smaller schools similar to Hofstra that could benefit from playing the defending national championships in those two sports—especially opening weekend. I’ll let you look up to see how many others previously accepted the challenge.

 

[VolPack22]

Great. There are a lot of smaller schools similar to Hofstra that could benefit from playing the defending national championships in those two sports—especially opening weekend. I’ll let you look up to see how many others previously accepted the challenge.

Considering only 1 school wins a national championship in a sport, it’s kind of hard to schedule any of the other 299 programs on the same day. Also, Hofstra softball technically scheduled the Getterman Classic in Waco, TX, which is Baylor’s home. So congratulations are in order for Baylor for putting Hofstra in the position to play Oklahoma. Oklahoma just happened to be a part of it. Hofstra opened with Baylor and alternated playing Oklahoma each game. Also, Oklahoma had already played 6 games against 6 different opponents prior to this weekend so I guess we should actually be congratulating those other 6 schools for playing Oklahoma before Hofstra bravely took on that challenge.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

How much $$ did Hofstra get ?

 

[VolPack22]

How much $$ did Hofstra get ?

Whatever is was, it was too much since they only scored 2 runs and every game was a run rule. Only played 78% of the regular innings that were scheduled because they couldn’t keep up. That’s really ballsy.

 

[brockytop]

Considering only 1 school wins a national championship in a sport, it’s kind of hard to schedule any of the other 299 programs on the same day. Also, Hofstra softball technically scheduled the Getterman Classic in Waco, TX, which is Baylor’s home. So congratulations are in order for Baylor for putting Hofstra in the position to play Oklahoma. Oklahoma just happened to be a part of it. Hofstra opened with Baylor and alternated playing Oklahoma each game. Also, Oklahoma had already played 6 games against 6 different opponents prior to this weekend so I guess we should actually be congratulating those other 6 schools for playing Oklahoma before Hofstra bravely took on that challenge.

Ironic scheduling or not, how many others programs have previously played the defending national champions in both sports on the same weekend?